Description
Book SynopsisAnalyses South African rugby through the lens of aesthetic politics. Building on 17 months of ethnographic research with rugby coaches, players, and administrators, Joshua Rubin argues that rugby is a form of performance and further that the qualities that define rugby shape the political ends to which the sport can be put.
Trade ReviewAnimated by Uncertainty is insightful, thought-provoking and beautifully written. It offers a bold, new perspective that is at once engaging and provocative: far more than a history of sport, it offers deep insights into the embodied practices and legacies of Apartheid in white and ‘coloured’ men and communities, as well as diverse fantasies of integration and failures to materialize them."" - Laura Fair, Michigan State University
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Making Art from Uncertainty: Magic and Its Politics in South African Rugby
- Chapter 2: Sons and Commodities: Work, Play, and the Politics of Autonomy at the Margins of Professional Rugby
- Chapter 3: Residual Uncertainty: Play, Injuries, and Rugby’s Masculine Ideal
- Chapter 4: Searching for Certainty: Rugby and Male Identity in a Former Model C School
- Chapter 5: Fractured Frames: Rugby, Imaginative Resistance, and the Legacies of the Struggle against Apartheid
- Chapter 6: In Apartheid’s Image: Rugby and Nationalist Spectacle in South Africa
- Conclusion
- Endnotes
- Works Cited
